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Catherine Mary Hicks (born August 6, 1951) is an American stage, film, television actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Annie Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven, Dr. Gillian Taylor in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and as Karen Barclay in Child's Play. Hicks was born in New York City, the daughter of Jackie, a homemaker, and Walter Hicks, an electronics salesman. She has Irish and English ancestry. Her family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona during her childhood. She was a cheerleader at Gerard Catholic High School in Phoenix, Arizona and a member of The... MORE

Catherine Mary Hicks (born August 6, 1951) is an American stage, film, television actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Annie Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven, Dr. Gillian Taylor in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and as Karen Barclay in Child's Play. Hicks was born in New York City, the daughter of Jackie, a homemaker, and Walter Hicks, an electronics salesman. She has Irish and English ancestry. Her family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona during her childhood. She was a cheerleader at Gerard Catholic High School in Phoenix, Arizona and a member of The National Honor Society (NHS). She graduated in 1969. After attending Saint Mary's College (Indiana), across the street from the University of Notre Dame, where she studied English Literature and Theology, Hicks won a prestigious acting fellowship to Cornell University. While at Cornell, she was a member of the Ithaca Repertory Theater Company. Hicks, whose parents were practicing Christians, is a devout Roman Catholic. She was engaged to journalist, Jeff Silverman, in the mid-1980s. The engagement ended. Catherine met her future husband, special effects make up artist, and the designer and executor LESS